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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?
(a) Puer.
(b) Senex.
(c) Anima.
(d) Oedipus.

2. Since the boy is forced to repress his desire for the "maternal body" at a young age, Kristeva says he has not yet understood the situation in what way?
(a) Physically.
(b) Sexually.
(c) Linguistically.
(d) Logically.

3. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?
(a) Death.
(b) The abject.
(c) Life.
(d) Love.

4. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?
(a) Evil.
(b) Self-loathing.
(c) Narcissism.
(d) Sin.

5. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject cannot be acknowledged through what?
(a) Experience.
(b) Art.
(c) Language.
(d) Feeling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?

2. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?

3. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?

4. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?

5. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?

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